Hardware

'Basically Lego for gamers': This new game controller has modular buttons, sticks, grips, and even vibration motors

The Steam Controller's main competition isn't from Microsoft or Sony: It's from third-party vendors

You need to know the Steam Controller's charging puck is always live, so if you accidentally touch it with something conductive, you're in for a shock

Hear the Steam Controller sing whole songs with haptics, including the Wii Store soundtrack, Still Alive, and even attempt a Rick Roll

'Average Valve W': After some Steam Controller packages were sent to the wrong country, Valve is reportedly giving 'any standard-edition title' to affected shoppers

Leaked Xbox Elite 3 controller images show at least one oddball addition, but it'll struggle to compete in a radically changed market

Steam Controllers to come back in stock with reprise of Steam Deck reservation system

Valve releases the CAD files for the Steam Controller and its Puck, no doubt ushering in an era of unholy 3D printed creations

Best PC controllers in 2026: the pads I recommend for PC gamers

Hyte's new prototype AIO cooler looks to pack funky RGB and transparent shrouds into an affordable package

Cooler Master's concept AIO cooler looks like it could chill Venus into Pluto, and I'm already hunting down the back of my sofa to get the pennies to buy one

Cooler Master is playing around with a 2000 W CPU and GPU cooling solution with four huge 180 mm fans

While everyone seems to be ignoring the state of the economy at Computex, Arctic is keeping things real by giving us a new, affordable CPU cooler

Tryx claims 'world's first holographic liquid cooler' at Computex but I doubt it was much of a contest

Noctua's pumpless liquid cooler prototype is now 'neck and neck' with a normal AIO: successfully cools Ryzen 9 9950X3D at 230 W

Noctua aims to effectively banish thermal paste horror stories and gooped-up CPU sockets

Noctua's iconic beige and brown PC fan now comes in a slightly less iconic all-black version for PC builders who can't stand the original colour

YouTuber discovers dry ice can indeed cool your gaming PC, if you have a very specific model from a very specific manufacturer

Turtle Beach Stealth Pro II review

Best wireless gaming headsets in 2026: the top cans I'd buy myself

Rig R5 Spear Max HD gaming headset review

SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Omni review

Glorious GHS Eternal wired gaming headset review

HyperX Cloud Flight 2 gaming headset review

Cambridge Audio L/R S review

Asus ROG Kithara headset review

Asus ROG Cetra Open Wireless review

Corsair's new and supposedly affordable seat continues 'the move away from traditional gaming chair style'

Flexispot C7 Morpher chair review

Toyota has turned a car seat into a gaming chair and it's $3,500

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested a ton of gaming chairs and these are the seats I'd suggest for any PC gamer

ThunderX3 Solo 360 Loft Air gaming chair review

DXRacer Martian XL gaming chair review

The Secretlab Pokemon Collection gaming chairs are shaping up to be a serious threat to my bank balance

Best office chairs for gaming in 2026: The top seats for work and gaming that I've tried and tested

As an awkward sitter, you may need a more dynamic ergonomic chair

Herman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive

Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

For the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)

Grovemade desk review

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

There's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it

Thunder X3 Lab-X review

MSI's new Strike Alloy has almost every gaming keyboard buzzword thrown at it, with TMR, 8k, and rapid trigger, and you can even use it underwater

The best quiet gaming keyboard we've tried is getting a smaller TKL version this year

We got eyes on Ducky's sleek Year of the Horse gaming keyboard, and I can say I like it more than its last horse one

Cherry attempts to change my mind about wireless gaming keyboards with world's first Ultra-Wideband button basher

Gigabyte's new gaming mouse and keyboard look great and all, but can we get a round of applause for its web software

Wooting's big knob is much more than a volume dial, set to arrive later this year for 80 HE

Keychron's carbon fiber concept is the skinniest keyboard I've ever typed on

Asus is releasing 'mystery' mini loot boxes with the most peculiar little keycaps I've ever seen

MelGeek Centauri 80 review

Keychron told us its new gaming mouse switches will have haptics like the Superstrike, but I'll still have to feel them for myself to be convinced

Keychron's on-the-fly optical/Hall effect mouse switch is taking on Logitech over one of the few things people didn't like about the SuperStrike

Corsair's new 'Nightsword' gaming mouse has a dedicated Stream Deck button, and I'm deciding if I'd accidentally press it too much

Asus has announced a gold-plated 82 g version of its Harpe II mouse with a 65K DPI, but it's way out of my budget

This new gaming mouse looks to combine tech similar to Logitech's analogue clicks and Razer's frame sync but I'm a little sceptical

Replacing the Viper V4 Pro's skates gave one reviewer some Razer warranty trouble after glass pad sensor issues

Zowie EC2-DW review

Best gaming mouse in 2026: We've tested the very best mice and these are the top picks

Best mouse pads for gaming in 2026: the fabric and hard-top mats I prefer to game on

This gaming monitor has a feature that I've never seen before in a display: a slot that you can jam a full graphics card into

This could be the competitive panel of my dreams: the 'world's first esport OLED monitor' looks to be a 540 Hz, 24.5-inch beast

Asus outs 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor with new LG RGB-stripe panel, but it's a bit behind on brightness

Okay, maybe I could be convinced AI monitors aren't all bad

LG reportedly denies plans to sell TV business to Hisense, but there's probably still a display war coming that could impact the PC

Samsung ups its 4K QD-OLED gaming monitor ante with impressive new 360 Hz, RGB-stripe, HDR 600 panel

OLED gaming monitor sales are booming as shipments increase 78% in the first quarter of 2026

LG reveals the world's first native 1,000 Hz 1080p panel but you're gonna need a beast of a rig to make good use of it

AOC's new 34-inch gaming monitor gets the same sizzling 5th Gen QD-OLED panel tech as our current favorite ultrawide but it's a whole lot cheaper

Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse

Check out this gachapon-inspired custom PC with a floating heart on top, and mini RAM sticks in its capsules

Valve really isn't budging: Steam Machine and Steam Frame are still 'shipping this summer,' it insists

MSI somehow has both the ugliest and prettiest laptop designs this Computex

I got my hands on Framework's 'MacBook Pro for Linux users' and its tagline isn't just marketing hyperbole

This is me playing Alan Wake 2's native Arm build on an RTX Spark laptop, and I'm here for it

Maingear MG-1 Mk.II (2026) review

CEO Jensen Huang says Nvidia is too busy with the 'gigantic project' of 'reinventing the PC after 40 years' to do a handheld gaming PC based on RTX Spark

AMD says that no decision has been made about bringing FSR 4.1 to RDNA 3.5 GPUs, which seems to contradict AMD also saying that it has no current plans to do so because of hardware reasons

Cheap graphics card deals this week

Galax shows off 'next generation' GPU concept with actual Swarovski crystals in it, and I fear it may not have got the memo on the state of the market in 2026

The overclocking headroom in AMD's Radeon 7000-series GPUs 'was certainly not accidental... the core of Radeon has to be all about value to the end user'

The blower is back: Cooler Master has made a GPU accessory that pushes hot air outside your case rather than onto your CPU

'One of my favourites': Even Jensen Huang recognises the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti as one of the best graphics cards Nvidia ever made

AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE review (Acer Nitro)

Next-gen GPUs aren't around at Computex, but MSI's got a taste of what they might look like

As if ROG Astral 50-series graphics cards could get any beefier, Asus has just announced a CHONKY anniversary update

The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert

Nanoleaf 4D Screen Mirror Kit review

Govee AI Sync Box Kit 2 review

Elgato Light Strip Pro review

Govee x Evangelion gaming light kits review

Govee Strip Light 2 Pro review

Govee Cob Strip Light Pro review

Sticking two fingers up at the economy, Biwin's new Origin Code memory sticks are as extreme as you could imagine, with up to 256 GB of DDR5-8000 CL42

Cooler Master and G.Skill team up to bring you actively cooled DRAM kits, answering that incredibly distant call for even more expensive memory

This Corsair RAM features 'light-emitting micro-drilling technology' and looks gorgeous but it's 2026 so of course it costs $600 for 32 GB

Team Group CEO warns that DRAM and SSD prices will still rise: 'If you need memory, we recommend purchasing it as soon as possible'

Two memory manufacturers join Samsung in the $1 trillion market cap club, global DRAM revenue is nearing $100,000,000,000, and I'm here with my head in my hands

Samsung has swerved a planned South Korean factory strike with a last-minute deal, so the memory machine rumbles on

Former Samsung boss predicts the memory crisis could be over in the second half of next year thanks to a 'surge' in Chinese capacity

We're getting closer to a 100% ROG rig as Asus gets into the DRAM game for its 20th anniversary

While I can barely find two sticks of 16 GB to rub together, Micron unveils a 256 GB memory module destined for AI servers

Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards

Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of

Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore

Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit

Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Modder uses Claude AI to code new BIOS that gets obscure all P-core Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs running on a Z790 motherboard

If Gigabyte's original X870E X3D Wood motherboard didn't do it for you, how about this moody 'Dark Wood' respin?

Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Glacial review

Intel has published a whole host of security vulnerabilities, with mitigations rolling out, but attackers will need local access to actually do anything

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

Asus says it's confident in its 'strong product security' after FCC foreign-made router ban, also *checks notes* fixes major security hole in its routers

The FCC says foreign routers 'pose an unacceptable risk' and now require special approval to be sold in the US

The best gaming routers 2026: the network data drivers I'd trust with my digital life

Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

If you have one of these old Asus routers, update its firmware as it may have a critical vulnerability that 'may allow remote attackers to gain unauthorized access'

Routers don't grab headlines like graphics cards but having a good one in your home can make a world of difference to your digital life

TP-Link Deco BE25 BE5000 review

Be Quiet! unveils huge new PC case designed for 'maximum performance' with room for up to seven HDDs

Montech's new shuttered PC case is so odd, I can't decide whether I'm missing the sheer brilliance of it or if it really is totally pointless

Corsair's slightly-outrageous Warthog PC case is the thing I'd most like to take home from Computex 2026, and I'm not ashamed to say it

This skyscraper-shaped custom PC at Computex has a food stall out the front selling 'Taiwanese sausage with sticky rice' and a rock climber free soloing up the side

Gigabyte has shown off a microATX PC case with a 16-inch built-in LCD screen, which I assume would give you the most unique rig at the next LAN party

Corsair's fighter jet-inspired case comes with a switch to toggle a light above the rear IO panel

Corsair announces solid wood front panels for its Frame 5000D PC cases, including a ripple one I'm not entirely sure about

What's better than one high tier gaming rig? A double-decker gaming rig, according to Thermaltake

This new microATX PC case comes with a Venom-like black liquid that reacts to sound and magnets, and I find it weirdly alluring